Proposal Construction: Chapter 1 to 3: Chapter 1 Part 3

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Narrowing Down Research Topic:

 To narrow down your topic / focus area, you could ask these kind of questions:


  1. Whom for you doing the research? (Specific populations / Stakeholders)
  2. What are the factors you have taken for a research? is it relevant, contemporary or not? (Relevant topic)
  3. Where exactly you want to do the research? (Specific geographical area)
  4. This particular time when you do the research, is it relevant or not? (Specific time period)
  5. Why the issue occurs? 
Example:
Topic: Research Topic on Eating disorder

Who – 

Initially this topic is too broad, to make it narrower, we opt for population that we can focus on. Social demographic factor like: race, gender, age which are connected with eating disorder. So, the topic can be eating disorder in elderly female. You are connected gender, the age and disorder. We are fine tuning this problem into this factor. 

What types of eating disorder - 

2 types of eating disorder, initially, we didn’t mention anything about the types. 2 types you bring in anorexia or bulimia, here not look at different of eating disorder only at the type of eating disorder. So, we change to Anorexia in elderly female. So here the topic changed.

When – 

The same topic itself, you are putting the timeframe, in this particular case you could reduce using current or historical view. The period of life, will be coming into the picture, you can change the topic towards Bulimia in Middle Age female, either you can connect to historical or current one. Two-time frame exactly.

Where –

 Where are you going to have this research? whether at states or regions, or countries, here it can be connected to Anorexia in Australian women, so at this stage, gender has come out, type has come out, place has come out, eating disorder has come out and you had incorporate all these things.

Why – 

 When you connected with why, you evaluate why is this happening (causative factors) you can connect between causes and treatment needed.  The outcome we are looking at is causes and treatment related to successful method for treatment of eating disorder. Some example like Causes and Treatment of Anorexia in College Athlete, Prevalence of Bulimia in Teenage Male in Mexican state, Changes of treatment for Compulsive Power dated 1950 up till recent

When you can answer the following questions, you are ready to conduct a research that lead to:
  • What problem do you want to solve?
  • Who cares about this issue or problem? and why it is so?
  • Is it interesting thing to the reader?
  • What has other done to solve this problem? and why is it inadequate?
Sources from: Professor Dr. Dileep Workshop on Proposal Construction - Writing Chapter 1 To Chapter 3 on 30 June 2019

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